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Course Outline
Domain 1—The Process of Auditing Information Systems (14%)
Deliver audit services in line with IT audit standards to help the organisation protect and govern its information systems.
- 1.1 Formulate and execute a risk-based IT audit strategy compliant with IT audit standards, ensuring coverage of critical areas.
- 1.2 Plan targeted audits to ascertain whether information systems are adequately protected, controlled, and deliver value to the organisation.
- 1.3 Execute audits in accordance with IT audit standards to meet planned objectives.
- 1.4 Communicate audit findings and recommendations to key stakeholders to facilitate results dissemination and drive necessary change.
- 1.5 Perform follow-ups or prepare status reports to ensure management implements appropriate actions within a timely manner.
Domain 2—Governance and Management of IT (14%)
Provide assurance that the requisite leadership, organisational structure, and processes are established to achieve objectives and support the organisation’s strategy.
- 2.1 Assess the effectiveness of the IT governance structure to confirm that IT decisions, direction, and performance align with the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Evaluate the IT organisational structure and human resources management to verify support for the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Assess the IT strategy, including direction, and the processes for its development, approval, implementation, and maintenance, ensuring alignment with organisational strategies and objectives.
- 2.4 Review the organisation’s IT policies, standards, and procedures, along with their development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring processes, to ensure they support IT strategy and comply with regulatory and legal requirements.
- 2.5 Evaluate the adequacy of the quality management system to determine if it supports the organisation’s strategies and objectives cost-effectively.
- 2.6 Assess IT management and control monitoring (e.g., continuous monitoring, QA) for compliance with the organisation’s policies, standards, and procedures.
- 2.7 Review IT resource investment, utilisation, and allocation practices, including prioritisation criteria, for alignment with the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Evaluate IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to determine if they support the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.9 Assess risk management practices to ensure the organisation’s IT-related risks are properly managed.
- 2.10 Evaluate monitoring and assurance practices to confirm that the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information on IT performance.
- 2.11 Assess the organisation’s business continuity plan to determine its ability to maintain essential business operations during an IT disruption.
Domain 3—Information Systems Acquisition, Development, and Implementation (19%)
Provide assurance that practices for the acquisition, development, testing, and implementation of information systems align with the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 3.1 Assess the business case for proposed investments in information systems acquisition, development, maintenance, and eventual retirement to ensure alignment with business objectives.
- 3.2 Evaluate project management practices and controls to determine if business requirements are met cost-effectively while managing organisational risks.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to verify that projects progress according to plans, are adequately documented, and that status reporting is accurate.
- 3.4 Assess controls for information systems during the requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases for compliance with organisational policies, standards, procedures, and applicable external requirements.
- 3.5 Evaluate the readiness of information systems for implementation and migration to production to ensure project deliverables, controls, and organisational requirements are met.
- 3.6 Perform post-implementation system reviews to confirm that project deliverables, controls, and organisational requirements have been satisfied.
Domain 4—Information Systems Operations, Maintenance and Support (23%)
Provide assurance that processes for information systems operations, maintenance, and support align with the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 4.1 Conduct periodic reviews of information systems to ensure they continue to meet organisational objectives.
- 4.2 Assess service level management practices to determine if the level of service from internal and external providers is defined and managed.
- 4.3 Evaluate third-party management practices to ensure providers adhere to the levels of control expected by the organisation.
- 4.4 Review operations and end-user procedures to ensure scheduled and non-scheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Assess the information systems maintenance process to ensure effective control and continued support for organisational objectives.
- 4.6 Evaluate data administration practices to determine database integrity and optimisation.
- 4.7 Assess the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools and techniques to ensure IT services meet organisational objectives.
- 4.8 Evaluate problem and incident management practices to determine if incidents, problems, or errors are recorded, analysed, and resolved promptly.
- 4.9 Assess change, configuration, and release management practices to ensure scheduled and non-scheduled changes to the production environment are adequately controlled and documented.
- 4.10 Evaluate the adequacy of backup and restore provisions to ensure information availability for resuming processing.
- 4.11 Assess the organisation’s disaster recovery plan to determine its ability to restore IT processing capabilities following a disaster.
Domain 5—Protection of Information Assets (30%)
Provide assurance that the organisation’s security policies, standards, procedures, and controls ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets.
- 5.1 Review information security policies, standards, and procedures for completeness and alignment with generally accepted practices.
- 5.2 Assess the design, implementation, and monitoring of system and logical security controls to verify the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
- 5.3 Evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of data classification processes and procedures for alignment with organisational policies, standards, procedures, and applicable external requirements.
- 5.4 Assess the design, implementation, and monitoring of physical access and environmental controls to ensure information assets are adequately safeguarded.
- 5.5 Review processes and procedures for storing, retrieving, transporting, and disposing of information assets (e.g., backup media, offsite storage, hard copy/print data, and softcopy media) to ensure adequate safeguarding.
Requirements
There are no specific prerequisites for this non-certified course.
35 Hours
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Testimonials (2)
1. The BCS test exam questions were often incoherent or not related to the syllabus - which appears to be a trait of BCS course and exams 2. the subject matter was taught reading powerpoint slides full of text - the BCS should be providing at least some diagrammatic content and other visual aids especially as many people learn in very different ways - more than just reading text.
john - UKHO
Course - BCS Practitioner Certificate in Information Assurance Architecture (CIAA)
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